Black Friday bulletin board, New York Gold Room, 1869 – Antique Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Black Friday bulletin board, New York Gold Room, 1869. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Black Friday bulletin board, New York Gold Room, 1869
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Black Friday, September 24, 1869, is the day a gold speculation scheme led by Jay Gould and James Fisk collapsed Wall Street and sent gold prices into a spiral. This bulletin board, photographed or drawn in the New York Gold Room, would have posted the rapidly changing gold quotations that brokers and clerks scrambled to read that afternoon. When the federal government released gold onto the market to break the corner, prices plunged, ruining many speculators and bringing business in the city to a standstill. The scene shows how dependent the trading floor was on hand-updated boards for information.
| Original scan | 6,371 × 5,558 px · prints to 21 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12856_NewYorkGoldRoombulletinboardon |
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